Interesting how in the General Dynamics years the Cruise Missiles cost something over 900k per. Then when the bastards at GD were allowed to rape the company by breaking it up, (thank you William Anders, you pr*ck of a golden parachute boy) that part was sold to Hughes who claimed they had a ‘paperless factory’ system for Cruise Missiles, and they DIDN’T then the price rocketed up. How convenient for the taxpayer.
[And YES, I was there - I KNOW, and as a taxpayer I am pissed off.]
Yabbut - the $$ for the THawks we have used was spent long ago. In that sense, they are ‘free’ IF WE DON’T REPLACE THEM. I have always said that weapons like the THawk are way too sanitary, way too easy for douchebags like His Oneness and the Hildebeast to use.
And, I was there too, on the Requirements side of the Pentagonal Edifice. As I remember, in the GD days they were originally built by hand. But again, so were airplanes .....
We ought NOT to replace them. War is supposed to be a dirty, nasty, hateful thing, not a sanitary exercise. If we replace them, make the g*****n warheads nukes so the political bastards will HAVE to think twice about using them.
Just sayin’.